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The extraction of the excruciating bladder stones
| Thomas MorrisEmily Evans
Among those vying to find alternatives to major surgery for bladder stones, young doctor Jean Civiale stood out, painstakingly honing a method that was to become the norm.
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Coleridge’s hypochondria
| Mike JayNaki Narh
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
| Douglas SmallBenjamin Gilbert
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.